It depends on what u want to recover and type of the db engine...
If u want to recover just the specifi db and if u have dump of the db, just
restore the db for innodb.
for myisam, u can just restore the files in that database.
regards
anandkl
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub@stripped> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have so far tried (unsuccessfully) to recover the database
> from the crashed Mac. (I am using Kubuntu 9.04)
>
> I tried 2 tactics.
>
> - shutdown the server (service mysql shutdown)
> copy the maqwiki folder into /var/lib/mysql
> restart the server. The server came up some tables
> show their content.
>
> - shutdown the server
> replace the whole myslq directory which in the case
> of the Mac is somewhere in /Application/MAMP/db/mysql
> or something like this
> to /var/lib/mysql
> then the server did not come up. I looked for a log
> file, for example in /var/log, but the mysql.log is
> empty and the syslog does not show anything with
> respect to mysql.
>
> Any ideas
>
> Thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer
>
>
>
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